The grand tour and the Great Rebellion
Subtitle: Richard Lassels and "The Voyage of Italy" in the seventeenth century
By: by Edward Chaney.
Contributors: Lassels, Richard, 1603?-1668.; Lassels, Richard, 1603?-1668.
Series: Biblioteca del viaggio in Italia ;; 19.; Testi =; Bibliothèque du voyage en Italie ;; 19.; Textes; Biblioteca del viaggio in Italia ;; 19.
Publisher: Slatkine
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Genève
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
Subjects: Lassels, Richard, 1603?-1668.; Lassels, Richard, 1603?-1668 -- Travel -- Italy.; Civilization, Modern -- 17th century.; Italy -- Description and travel.
First sentence: If one includes Rome and Naples as essential ingredients in a Grand Tour itinerary, as by eighteenth-century definitions one clearly should, then it was only after 1630, following the peace treaties with France and Spain that the British version of the Gradn Tour can be said to have taken shape.
Description: An account of the effect of Civil War on travel and the evolution of the Grand Tour, featuring new discoveries on Milton, Inigo Jones, the collector Earl of Arundel, Hobbes, Nicholas Lanier, George Gage, Tobie Matthew and many others...
Notes: Bibliography: p. 434-456.
Contains: Richard Lassel's Description of Italy (1654).
Includes index.